Word: shortness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much over the long run by suffering the short-term agonies of integration now. "There is simply no acceptable future for American society in segregation," argues John H. Fischer, president of Columbia's Teachers College. "I cannot see how a child can be prepared for a multiracial world if he is brought up in segregated schools, black or white." A national desire to integrate, if it is there, will not prevail without what...
Little Hope. About the only person who seemed even remotely optimistic was United Nations Secretary-General U Thant. Cutting short a home visit to Burma, Thant flew back to New York for consultations with ambassadors of the four powers (the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France) that are attempting to restore the Middle East ceasefire. Thant said he had returned to examine "positive elements" in the talks; the participants, after 28 fruitless meetings, wondered what he meant. They have agreed that Israel should withdraw from occupied territories. But they are far from agreement on security guarantees for Israel, and without...
...provide adequate protection. To be completely safe, the eclipse watcher should turn his back to the sun and hold up a card with a pinhole. The sun's rays will be focused by the hole and projected as a sharp, safe solar image on any white surface a short distance away...
David Ely commits his familiar allegory with finesse, the same imaginative energy and nimble prose that marked his previous contributions to social-science fiction, Seconds, The Tour and Time Out, a collection of short stories. If Poor Devils suffers, it is from an excess of padding and marginal rumination. But they are not enough to blunt the book's theme: the enormous human need to feel valuable in a dangerous, complex world, where men are numbed or manipulated by remote control for what may or may not be their own good. As embodied in the aggressively bathless Carl Lundquist...
...same as the sun's tomorrow, but this is not always the case. Since the moon's orbit is not circular, there are times when the satellite passes in front of the sun but is so far from the earth that the cone of the umbra falls short of the earth's surface. When this happens, the moon will appear smaller than the sun, and at mid-eclipse, the sun will form a ring around the smaller moon-an annular eclipse...